🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 Comedi 저수준 드라이버인 'c6xdigio'에서 PNP 드라이버 등록 실패 시에도 무조건적으로 등록 해제를 시도하는 결함이 발견되었습니다. 이로 인해 성공하지 않은 드라이버를 해제하려 할 때 'Unexpected driver unregister!' 경고와 함께 커널 시스템의 불안정성을 초래할 수 있습니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
장치를 연결할 때 드라이버 등록이 실패했는데도, 장치를 제거할 때 마치 등록이 성공했던 것처럼 강제로 해제 명령을 내려서 발생하는 오류입니다. 이 과정에서 시스템이 예상치 못한 동작을 하며 경고를 발생시킵니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: c6xdigio: Fix invalid PNP driver unregistration
The Comedi low-level driver "c6xdigio" seems to be for a parallel port
connected device. When the Comedi core calls the driver's Comedi
"attach" handler `c6xdigio_attach()` to configure a Comedi to use this
driver, it tries to enable the parallel port PNP resources by
registering a PNP driver with `pnp_register_driver()`, but ignores the
return value. (The `struct pnp_driver` it uses has only the `name` and
`id_table` members filled in.) The driver's Comedi "detach" handler
`c6xdigio_detach()` unconditionally unregisters the PNP driver with
`pnp_unregister_driver()`.
It is possible for `c6xdigio_attach()` to return an error before it
calls `pnp_register_driver()` and it is possible for the call to
`pnp_register_driver()` to return an error (that is ignored). In both
cases, the driver should not be calling `pnp_unregister_driver()` as it
does in `c6xdigio_detach()`. (Note that `c6xdigio_detach()` will be
called by the Comedi core if `c6xdigio_attach()` returns an error, or if
the Comedi core decides to detach the Comedi device from the driver for
some other reason.)
The unconditional call to `pnp_unregister_driver()` without a previous
successful call to `pnp_register_driver()` will cause
`driver_unregister()` to issue a warning "Unexpected driver
unregister!". This was detected by Syzbot [1].
Also, the PNP driver registration and unregistration should be done at
module init and exit time, respectively, not when attaching or detaching
Comedi devices to the driver. (There might be more than one Comedi
device being attached to the driver, although that is unlikely.)
Change the driver to do the PNP driver registration at module init time,
and the unregistration at module exit time. Since `c6xdigio_detach()`
now only calls `comedi_legacy_detach()`, remove the function and change
the Comedi driver "detach" handler to `comedi_legacy_detach`.
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[1] Syzbot sample crash report:
Unexpected driver unregister!
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5970 at drivers/base/driver.c:273 driver_unregister drivers/base/driver.c:273 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5970 at drivers/base/driver.c:273 driver_unregister+0x90/0xb0 drivers/base/driver.c:270
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5970 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
RIP: 0010:driver_unregister drivers/base/driver.c:273 [inline]
RIP: 0010:driver_unregister+0x90/0xb0 drivers/base/driver.c:270
Code: 48 89 ef e8 c2 e6 82 fc 48 89 df e8 3a 93 ff ff 5b 5d e9 c3 6d d9 fb e8 be 6d d9 fb 90 48 c7 c7 e0 f8 1f 8c e8 51 a2 97 fb 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 5b 5d e9 a5 6d d9 fb e8 e0 f4 41 fc eb 94 e8 d9 f4 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000373f9a0 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff8ff24720 RCX: ffffffff817b6ee8
RDX: ffff88807c932480 RSI: ffffffff817b6ef5 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff8ff24660
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88814cca0000
FS: 000055556dab1500(0000) GS:ffff8881249d9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055f77f285cd0 CR3: 000000007d871000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
comedi_device_detach_locked+0x12f/0xa50 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:207
comedi_device_detach+0x67/0xb0 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:215
comedi_device_attach+0x43d/0x900 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:1011
do_devconfig_ioctl+0x1b1/0x710 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:872
comedi_unlocked_ioctl+0x165d/0x2f00 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2178
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_sys
---truncated---
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (Comedi c6xdigio driver module)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
로컬 공격자가 Comedi 장치 설정(ioctl)을 조작하여 드라이버 등록/해제 과정을 비정상적으로 유도할 수 있음
🛡️ 대응 방법
PNP 드라이버 등록 및 해제 로직을 장치 연결/해제 시점이 아닌 모듈 초기화/종료 시점으로 변경한 최신 커널로 업데이트
🔧 검증 코드
해당 드라이버 코드 내에서 pnp_register_driver가 attach/detach 핸들러가 아닌 module_init/exit 단계에서 호출되는지 확인
grep -r "c6xdigio" drivers/comedi/ | grep "pnp_register_driver"